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NAME

       urxvtd - urxvt terminal daemon

SYNOPSIS

       urxvtd [-q|--quiet] [-o|--opendisplay] [-f|--fork] [-m|--mlock] [-e|--eval perlstring]

       urxvtd -q -o -f    # for .xsession use

DESCRIPTION

       This manpage describes the urxvtd daemon, which is the same vt102 terminal emulator as urxvt, but runs as
       a daemon that can open multiple terminal windows within the same process.

       You can run it from your X startup scripts, for example, although it is not dependent on a working
       DISPLAY and, in fact, can open windows on multiple X displays on the same time.

       Advantages of running a urxvt daemon include faster creation time for terminal windows and a lot of saved
       memory.

       The disadvantage is a possible impact on stability - if the main program crashes, all processes in the
       terminal windows are terminated. For example, as there is no way to cleanly react to abnormal connection
       closes, "xkill" and server resets/restarts will kill the urxvtd instance including all windows it has
       opened.

OPTIONS

       urxvtd currently understands a few options only. Bundling of options is not yet supported.

       -q, --quiet
           Normally, urxvtd outputs the message "rxvt-unicode daemon listening on <path>" after binding to its
           control socket. This option will suppress this message (errors and warnings will still be logged).

       -o, --opendisplay
           This forces urxvtd to open a connection to the current $DISPLAY and keep it open.

           This is useful if you want to bind an instance of urxvtd to the lifetime of a specific
           display/server. If the server does a reset, urxvtd will be killed automatically.

       -f, --fork
           This makes urxvtd fork after it has bound itself to its control socket.

       -m, --mlock
           This makes urxvtd call mlockall(2) on itself. This locks urxvtd in RAM and prevents it from being
           swapped out to disk, at the cost of consuming a lot more memory on most operating systems.

           Note: In order to use this feature, your system administrator must have set your user's
           RLIMIT_MEMLOCK to a size greater than or equal to the size of the urxvtd binary (or to unlimited).
           See /etc/security/limits.conf.

           Note 2: There is a known bug in glibc (possibly fixed in 2.8 and later versions) where calloc returns
           non-zeroed memory when mlockall is in effect. If you experience crashes or other odd behaviour while
           using --mlock, try it without it.

       -e, --eval perlstring
           Evaluate the given perl code after basic initialisation (requires perl support to be enabled when
           compiling urxvtd).

           This can be used for example to configure the internal perl interpreter, which is shared between all
           terminal instances, or create additional listening sockets for additional protocols.

           The code is currently executed before creating the normal listening sockets: this might change in
           future versions.

EXAMPLES

       This is a useful invocation of urxvtd in a .xsession-style script:

          urxvtd -q -f -o

       This waits till the control socket is available, opens the current display and forks into the background.
       When you log-out, the server is reset and urxvtd is killed.

ENVIRONMENT

       RXVT_SOCKET
           Both urxvtc and urxvtd use the environment variable RXVT_SOCKET to create a listening socket and to
           contact the urxvtd, respectively. If the variable is missing then $HOME/.urxvt/urxvtd-<nodename> is
           used.

       DISPLAY
           Only used when the "--opendisplay" option is specified. Must contain a valid X display name.

SEE ALSO

       urxvt(7), urxvtc(1)